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@fitty_d Ahh, I could see that being of less interest if you’ve been exposed to it a lot.

Bonus challenge: Go skating around the tide pools 😉

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@fitty_d Yeah, low tide really only coming once in the daylight complicates scheduling. Hopefully y’all can make it out for some tide pooling another time. The iNaturalist app is great for taking photos of things you see and identifying them in real-time, if you don’t have the app already

[Michael O’Brien @DrOBrienMD]

Y’all, not to be a huge nerd but for the reflecting pool you would need a minimum of about 8,000 liters of 12% hydrogen peroxide to reach the 50 parts per million concentration to kill algae…

Is this what happens when you have 0 scientists in your administration?

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving.

Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free.

I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these."

"They just come with the table, man."

They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner.

This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat.

I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared.

"Did we…?"

"Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless."

Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined.

My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude."

Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man.

I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy.

Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived.

I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most.

Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.

[Neal Parikh @npparikh]

Anthony Bourdain wrote about this. This was his pitch for Parts Unknown. Trust me, read the whole thing.

[Aaron @ajshapi1]

Thank you Reddit for the greatest notification I’ve ever received

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@loud_socialist @FreddyLA7 and The South

[Hayden @the_transit_guy]

This is the America I believe in

[Zach Schwartz @zachzachzach]

Fox putting Alexi Lalas on tv with Thierry Henry and Zlatan is like TNT putting Shaq and Chuck with Kendrick Perkins

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@HouseGOP Get fucked, pedo lovers

[Alejandro Berry @alejandroberry]

We DO NOT cut to commercials during the hydration break. Join us for uninterrupted football on @Telemundo and @TelemundoSports

[Jose Sanchez @JS3Sanchezz]

Me tomorrow when Mexico kicks off the World Cup

[katelin 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @loudsocialist.bsky.social @loud_socialist]

I wish this is the America that was hosting the World Cup and not an America that is refusing visas to national teams and referees.

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@FreddyLA7 Will you be coming to Austin? Would love to show and treat you to some proper BBQ

[vids that go hard @vidsthatgohard]

Anthony Bourdain died on this day eight years ago and him describing Waffle House is still the single-most important description of America that has ever been articulated.

[Gav 🇬🇷 @TzolakiSZN]

It’s unbelievable that they picked an NFL stadium in fucking New Jersey for the final over one of the Cathedrals of the sport

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@XavierBecerra Fuck you, corporate cuck

[The Last Farm @TheLastFarm]

Idiotic hell society racing towards the cliff’s edge

[Qadi @Bigqadi]

Walking alone through a foreign city at night, realizing how far you’ve come. Top 3 peak moments ever.